Hard techno superstar blk. may have grown up in the rural village of Emly, County Tipperary, but music was never far away. He spent years absorbing the harder edges of dance music, with a rave promoter dad who sold deep house records from a shop he ran in Limerick City.

Those years absorbing extreme sounds weren’t for nothing. It shaped his direction as he began to produce hard techno, attracting early buzz with 2020’s ‘Don’t Talk, Just Listen’, which caught the attention of Irish imprint Reboot Records. This led to the release of the equally hyped ‘Enter The Dragon’ in 2021.

By the end of 2024, he became the first solo Irish DJ to headline Dublin’s 3 Arena and appeared at the globally renowned festival Tomorrowland. A full-circle moment arrived, too. Four years after releasing ‘I Need A Boiler Room’, blk. made his debut on the platform, spinning an hour of mind-bending techno to a charged Manchester crowd. It was a year to remember for the DJ who played his first show in front of 200 people in Sligo.

Since that year, blk. hasn’t looked back. He brought his relentless strand of techno to Belsonic Festival, nearly doubling the number of people he played to at the 3 Arena and shaking the foundations of Creamfields Festival. Keep your eyes peeled for the next blk. tour and find any blk. tickets up for grabs right here on Skiddle.